I heard a rake recently, which says capitalism comes from capital, as in the all caps corporate fiction that is assigned to us at birth, rather than meaning free trade. Made sense
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Capital is Latin for "head". It is a durable good that you can count as your own, and that can be used to gain other goods or services. It is property.
15 head of cattle
A shovel
A bag of silver coins
A sturdy wooden stick
A rifle
A machine
Some real estate
A barrel of whiskey
Intellectual property can also be capital.
So, if someone forces you to document your IP in some particular way or in some particular place, they can control your use of your IP.
So free trade in IP requires the ability to document as you wish.
We would have to use a p2p mesh network